Using XAMPP (Windows, Linux, OSX)
XAMPP is a free, cross-platform web server package, and can be found here:
When installing XAMPP, we only require the PHP and Apache features. You can uncheck the following options in installation if you have no need for them:
MySQL, FileZilla FTP Server, Mercury Mail Server, Tomcat, Perl, phpMyAdmin, Webalizer, Fake Sendmail...ain't nobody got time fo dat.
To install the code that makes Flex TV run, you can either use git to install Flex TV by cloning directly from github, or you can manually download a .zip file of the application.
Either option will work, but note that if you do not use git, Flex TV will not have the ability to auto-update itself.
Assuming you have already installed git, open a git shell and navigate to the xampp/htdocs folder, and delete EVERYTHING currently in there. We don't need or want it. Now, execute the command
git clone https://github.com/d8ahazard/FlexTV.git
Download the latest stable version of Flex TV or the beta.
Go into xampp/htdocs, and delete EVERYTHING.
Open the Flex TV-master.zip file you downloaded, open the subfolder called "Flex TV-Master", and extract all of the files from that directory into xampp/htdocs.
When done, xampp/htdocs should contain api.php, log.php, util.php - as well as folders like /cast /css /java (and a bunch more).
That should be it. You can now restart the apache service for your webserver, and browse to your Flex TV installation at http://yourserveraddress:80
To log in, enter your Plex username and password.
If you are running Flex TV on an existing webserver, Flex TV requires PHP version 7.0 and up.
Flex TV will also require r/w access to the root of the /Flex TV directory for configuration and logging purposes. You will also need the CURL and openSSL extensions enabled, and sockets if you have any Cast devices. If you're not using Xampp, you may also need to enable the xml module.
